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Artemita town

ASSYRIA (Ancient country) PERSIAN GULF
  Artemita (Artemita, Strab. xi. p. 519, xvi. p. 744; Ptol. vi. 1. § 6; Steph.; Isid. Char. p. 5; Artemita, Plin. vi. 26; Tab. Peutinger.), a city of Assyria, or perhaps more strictly of Babylonia (Strab. xi. p. 519), in the district of Apolloniatis (Isid. Char.); according to Strabo (xvi. p. 744) 500 stadia (Tab. Peuting. 71 mill.) E. of Seleucia, and 8,000 stadia N. of the Persian Gulf. (Strab. xi. p. 519.) According to Tacitus (vi. 41) it was a Parthian town, in which Stephanus (on the authority of Strabo, though that geographer does not say so) coincides with him. Pliny (vi. 26) places it wrongly in Mesopotamia. It was situated on a river called the Sillas. The modern Sherban is supposed to occupy its site.

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Lycus river

Messabatene

  Messabatene (Plin. vi. 27. s. 31; Messabatike. Strab. xi. p. 524: Eth. Messabatai, Ptol. vi. 4. § 3), a narrow district in the mid-land of Susiana (as indeed its name implies), situated according to Pliny under Mt. Cambalidus (one of the southern spurs of Mt. Zagros), to the N. of the tribe of the Cossiaei. Strabo states that it lies under Zagrus, and is either a part of Media, or, as others hold, of Elymaea (xi. p. 524): in another place he calls Massabatice an eparchate of Elymaea, and adds that the best pass into Assyria lay through it (xvi. p. 744). Ptolemy (l. c.), who does not mention the district by its name, makes the Messabatae the inhabitants of Paraetacene, itself a subdivision of Persis, adjoining Media.

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Zabatus

  Zabatus (Zabatos), a river of Assyria, first noticed by Xenophon (Anab. ii. 5. § 1, iii. 3. § 6), and the same as the Lycus of Polybius (v. 51), Arrian (Anab. iii. 15), and Strabo (ii. p. 79, xvi. p. 737). It is called Zabas by Ammianus (xviii. 14) and Zerbis by Pliny (vi. 26. s. 30). There can be no doubt that it is now represented by the Greater Zab, a river of considerable size, which, rising in the mountains on the confines of Armenia and Kurdistan, flows into the Tigris a little to the S. of the great mound of Nimrud (Tavernier, ii. c. 7; Layard, Nineveh and its Remains, i. p. 192.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks